MAGUIRE93
High Angle Hell
+182|6631|Schofield Barracks

rdx-fx wrote:

War Man wrote:

Yep, and there is a civilian variant hk416 by the way, or at least it is in developement. I wouldn't mind one.
MR223.
yup that gave me a boner.
War Man
Australians are hermaphrodites.
+564|7151|Purplicious Wisconsin

Poseidon wrote:

War Man wrote:

? Your an idiot
lol

even though I wasn't even referring to you and you idiocy

lol
I've gotten used to typing "your" alot.
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
blademaster
I'm moving to Brazil
+2,075|7082

Beduin wrote:

david363 wrote:

War
Uhmm..Love
yeah LOVE <3
Sydney
2λчиэλ
+783|7280|Reykjavík, Iceland.
But who got the kill credit and who got the no more?
david363
Crotch fires and you: the untold story
+314|7176|Comber, Northern Ireland
im drunk
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6657|Phoenix, AZ
Lol, playing chicken with satellites
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|7038|132 and Bush

U.S. Strategic Command is tracking hundreds of satellite fragments. In the 48+ hours since the collision, the debris swarm has spread around both orbits. Experts characterize the distribution as a pair of "clumpy rings"; one ring traces the orbit of Iridium 33, the other traces the orbit of Kosmos 2251.

This injection of debris substantially increases the population of space junk at altitudes near 800 km. Collisions are now more likely than ever. Fortunately, the International Space Station orbits Earth at a much lower altitude, 350 km, so it is in no immediate danger. The Hubble Space Telescope is not so safe at 610 km. In the days ahead, researchers will carefully study the make-up and dynamics of the debris cloud to estimate when bits will begin to drift down to lower altitudes.

LISTEN UP: The US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar is monitoring the skies above Texas for echoes from satellite fragments. Try listening on Saturday, Feb. 14th between 2:18 and 2:28 am CST (0818 - 0828 UT). That's when Kosmos 2251 would have passed over the radar intact had it not been shattered.
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Listen to it tomorrow.^^^^^^^^^^^
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Ultrafunkula
Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...
+1,975|6911|6 6 4 oh, I forget

GG. Now them wrecks are going to kill other satellites too?
bad-man
now say you sorry
+34|6285|one windy city
i call bullshit
so we can monitor 500-600 pieces of space trash 3" in size but we cant see a fucking russian satellite the size of a fucking car flying crash course into US satellite?????

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/12/nasa-alert-as-satellites-collide wrote:

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Les Kodlick of the US strategic command, said: "We believe it's the first time that two satellites have collided in orbit." The command's joint space operations centre was tracking 500 to 600 new bits of debris, some as small as 10cm (3.9 inches) across, in addition to the 18,000 or so other man-made objects it has catalogued, he said.
Ultrafunkula
Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...
+1,975|6911|6 6 4 oh, I forget

bad-man wrote:

i call bullshit
so we can monitor 500-600 pieces of space trash 3" in size but we cant see a fucking russian satellite the size of a fucking car flying crash course into US satellite?????

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/12/nasa-alert-as-satellites-collide wrote:

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Les Kodlick of the US strategic command, said: "We believe it's the first time that two satellites have collided in orbit." The command's joint space operations centre was tracking 500 to 600 new bits of debris, some as small as 10cm (3.9 inches) across, in addition to the 18,000 or so other man-made objects it has catalogued, he said.
Catalogued?? How the hell do you catalogue fist sized objects floating around in space and keep track of them?
War Man
Australians are hermaphrodites.
+564|7151|Purplicious Wisconsin

Ultrafunkula wrote:

bad-man wrote:

i call bullshit
so we can monitor 500-600 pieces of space trash 3" in size but we cant see a fucking russian satellite the size of a fucking car flying crash course into US satellite?????

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/12/nasa-alert-as-satellites-collide wrote:

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Les Kodlick of the US strategic command, said: "We believe it's the first time that two satellites have collided in orbit." The command's joint space operations centre was tracking 500 to 600 new bits of debris, some as small as 10cm (3.9 inches) across, in addition to the 18,000 or so other man-made objects it has catalogued, he said.
Catalogued?? How the hell do you catalogue fist sized objects floating around in space and keep track of them?
Um, more like helicopter sized objects floating in space. And yeah how do you keep track of an object, it is pretty damn hard as there is a bunch of junk in space.
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
rdx-fx
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+955|7028

Ultrafunkula wrote:

Catalogued?? How the hell do you catalogue fist sized objects floating around in space and keep track of them?
They're just badass like that.

No, really.  Good radar + good grasp of orbital physics ("an object in motion.. stays in motion" etc) + manpower + computer budget = we know where most of the objects orbiting our planet are. 

Kinda useful to know when you're pushing manned shuttles into orbit, or pushing multi-billion-dollar satellites, or adjusting the orbit of a spy sat to get a better look at something.

Hypersonic fist-sized objects punching holes in shuttles ... plays badly on CNN.
NASA doesn't like giving interviews to Wolf Blitzer that start off with "Can you tell us what went wrong?"
Ultrafunkula
Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...
+1,975|6911|6 6 4 oh, I forget

rdx-fx wrote:

Ultrafunkula wrote:

Catalogued?? How the hell do you catalogue fist sized objects floating around in space and keep track of them?
They're just badass like that.

No, really.  Good radar + good grasp of orbital physics ("an object in motion.. stays in motion" etc) + manpower + computer budget = we know where most of the objects orbiting our planet are. 

Kinda useful to know when you're pushing manned shuttles into orbit, or pushing multi-billion-dollar satellites, or adjusting the orbit of a spy sat to get a better look at something.

Hypersonic fist-sized objects punching holes in shuttles ... plays badly on CNN.
NASA doesn't like giving interviews to Wolf Blitzer that start off with "Can you tell us what went wrong?"
Yea they better have a schedule when there is a millisecond opening to get a huge schoolbus up there. Just curious how in the name of anything they have them on a x-y-z axis map 24/7. Need to have one helluva Amiga 500 for that.

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